These folks are fortunate that they had available loops to grab. I've been trying for months to get Qwest DSL. Qwest told me that my line wouldn't qualify because my second line was installed using a bridge tap and was interfering. I cancelled my 2nd line and asked for the bridge tap to be removed. Two weeks later I get a different story from Qwest that there are no unused pairs in my area so even though DSL is available just 2 blocks away, it will probably never be available in my area. No one ever mentioned whether anyone had removed the bridge tap as requested.
I live in a city of 50,000 people in Northern Arizona. It's a crime that Qwest can treat it's customers this way and that DSL is not universally available in a city of this size. It isn't just that I can't get DSL, I cannot connect at anything higher than 28k. I don't have words to describe how bad this is.
I don't believe Dell is really committed to Linux on the desktop. I searched their web site for home systems & found one hit on Linux - and it was a year old. If Dell was serious about this we would have seen an announcement on the first day of Linux World that Dell was going to start bundling Corel Linux on their systems. When I see that happen I'll be the first in line with my checkbook in hand. Until then its all just a bunch of hot air.
I don't disagree that MC needed to go, but I'd like an explanation of the Debian remark. How is creating a distribution based upon Debian a negative thing. I figure that if anything it raised awareness of Debian. I sure would never have ventured out the the Red Hat camp had it not been for Corel's Linux distribution and I've been quite happy and successful using it.
As a long-time user of products from both companies (and currently a very small stock-holder in both) I have to laugh at your poor knowledge of history. Corel has done some very good things with WordPerfect and the rest of the suite. Unlike Borland (which abandoned Paradox because they were in love with Delphi), Corel has shown a commitment to the products that it has in it's stable. Now I realize that neither company has a stellar performance in this regard, but it depends upon how far back you look. I think Corel has done quite well in the time since they purchased WordPerfect, etc.
Personally, I'm excited about this merger. I don't know about the values involved, but I'm looking at the combined products and talents. Because they have almost no overlap, there isn't any waste in the product lines that needs to be jetisoned. I think it's a little strange that they are just painting this as a "Linux Powerhouse" strategy since they do more than just Linux, but bottom line I believe they will do much better together than separately. Given some of the deals that Corel has been making lately, I've really been puzzled by the drift in stock performance of both companies - but I learned when Corel jumped from $10 to $40 overnight (at the time of the RH IPO) that the stock market does a lot that makes no sense!
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These folks are fortunate that they had available loops to grab. I've been trying for months to get Qwest DSL. Qwest told me that my line wouldn't qualify because my second line was installed using a bridge tap and was interfering. I cancelled my 2nd line and asked for the bridge tap to be removed. Two weeks later I get a different story from Qwest that there are no unused pairs in my area so even though DSL is available just 2 blocks away, it will probably never be available in my area. No one ever mentioned whether anyone had removed the bridge tap as requested.
I live in a city of 50,000 people in Northern Arizona. It's a crime that Qwest can treat it's customers this way and that DSL is not universally available in a city of this size. It isn't just that I can't get DSL, I cannot connect at anything higher than 28k. I don't have words to describe how bad this is.
I don't believe Dell is really committed to Linux on the desktop. I searched their web site for home systems & found one hit on Linux - and it was a year old. If Dell was serious about this we would have seen an announcement on the first day of Linux World that Dell was going to start bundling Corel Linux on their systems. When I see that happen I'll be the first in line with my checkbook in hand. Until then its all just a bunch of hot air.
I don't disagree that MC needed to go, but I'd like an explanation of the Debian remark. How is creating a distribution based upon Debian a negative thing. I figure that if anything it raised awareness of Debian. I sure would never have ventured out the the Red Hat camp had it not been for Corel's Linux distribution and I've been quite happy and successful using it.
As a long-time user of products from both companies (and currently a very small stock-holder in both) I have to laugh at your poor knowledge of history. Corel has done some very good things with WordPerfect and the rest of the suite. Unlike Borland (which abandoned Paradox because they were in love with Delphi), Corel has shown a commitment to the products that it has in it's stable. Now I realize that neither company has a stellar performance in this regard, but it depends upon how far back you look. I think Corel has done quite well in the time since they purchased WordPerfect, etc.
Personally, I'm excited about this merger. I don't know about the values involved, but I'm looking at the combined products and talents. Because they have almost no overlap, there isn't any waste in the product lines that needs to be jetisoned. I think it's a little strange that they are just painting this as a "Linux Powerhouse" strategy since they do more than just Linux, but bottom line I believe they will do much better together than separately. Given some of the deals that Corel has been making lately, I've really been puzzled by the drift in stock performance of both companies - but I learned when Corel jumped from $10 to $40 overnight (at the time of the RH IPO) that the stock market does a lot that makes no sense!
Instead of telling each other what an idiot Garfinkel is, tell The Boston Globe! Letters to the Editor go to letter@globe.com